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Comment Re:Not Suprised (Score 1) 476

I've never had it happen to me, but if an employer tried to stiff me out of honest pay that I had worked for, I'd always imagined I'd take'em to court for it if it added up to so much as an hours pay. Just because of the principal that I didn't set out to work for free, and trying to stiff me on the paycheck equates (in my mind) to slavery by false pretenses.
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I'm reading this book, How Israel Was Won, and I'm getting this very odd feeling that it's biased against the Israeli's. By way of word choice and the exclusion or inclusion of certain information that's either damaging to Israel or the Palestinians, it just seems like it's slanting the board. I finally read one paragraph that's so completely missing an obvious half of the story that I check out reviews and lo and behold, the critics agree that it's a piece of propaganda with an unbalanced vi

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